A spectre is haunting art: the spectre of the Spirit. Evoked by Wassily Kandinsky a century ago, disdainfully rejected by the twentieth-century neo-avant-garde, brought back into vogue by shaman artists such as Joseph Beuys or Marina Abramovich, this disquieting witness to a different vision of the human remains a guest whom very few are willing to play host to.
The Prism (aka Stefano Simontacchi) is one of this “happy few”. A personality who came to art after an itinerary of inner meditation, The Prism has given rise to an engaging action of spiritual awakening that has the power to subvert the materialism in which we are immersed.
His experiential work starts from a new idea of Art understood less as an individualistic aesthetic expression than as a form of awareness and reunion with a higher reality.
This book, introduced with an extensive critical essay by Marco Senaldi, brings together all the “portals” of The Prism, and is accompanied by images of the works that inspired them.
